Amanda Marcotte on why, after all the Trump crimes and moral transgressions his base has excused or denied, they're in high dudgeon about this Epstein thing.
I also think this conspiracy theory is different from many of the others because this one has an actual dead body attached. Of all the ones these same people believed about Hillary Clinton, the ones that had the widest fan base were the ones that led to the mysterious death of White House Counsel Vince Foster.
Someone killed Jeffrey Epstein and the circumstances — and the fact that a video that was released was apparently edited — makes it quite easy to believe that Someone was not Jeffrey Epstein…especially when Trump's White House seems to be saying there was no evidence against him. And of course, Trump is looking more and more panicked with his denials, practically ordering them to forget about the whole thing.
I have no idea where there is going and you don't either. But it does seem to be a possible answer to the question that all those Internet "reporters" trying to make like Jordan Klepper keep asking people in MAGA hats: "Is there anything Donald Trump could do that would cause you to break with him?"